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Re:I wish my web server were in the corner of my room by adhoc_slime on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @02:10PM (#33166807)
Pretty much! As engineers we all sweat sleepless nights mulling over five 9's and we conflate these valid business needs with our hobbies and personal art/projects.

It doesn't have to be this way! Put it on a pi and have fun, if not for your sanity at the very least do it for your second most valuable resource, your time. If all a person wants to do is have a website that plays a piezo buzzer when someone visits on your RPi, just write that damned code, they shouldn't feel the need to worry about all the nitty gritty when all that they wanted to do is have fun!

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Re:I wish my web server were in the corner of my room by marginalia_nu on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @04:08PM (#33168592)
89.9999% has five nines too, just sayin' ;-)
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Re:I wish my web server were in the corner of my room by BizarroLand on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @04:28PM (#33168820)
0.99999% as well
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Re:I wish my web server were in the corner of my room by NaturalPhallacy on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @05:39PM (#33169576)
~3.65 days of a year. I suspect a lot of small projects nail this.
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Re:I wish my web server were in the corner of my room by ohgodplsno on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @01:31AM (#33173243)
Hey, that's my Raspberry Pi when I find this one thing that looks fun, try it out and give up a few days later. Extremely efficient uptime, it's 100% when i need it.
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Re:I wish my web server were in the corner of my room by imhoguy on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @03:44AM (#33174042)
Look how much electricity we would save if many unused servers would turn on only when users actually need them. We need WoL via browser. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake-on-LAN
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Re:I wish my web server were in the corner of my room by RealStickman_ on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @06:12AM (#33174900)
You mean spinning up resources as needed?

I think I've heard of some services like that...

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Re:I wish my web server were in the corner of my room by marginalia_nu on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @06:16AM (#33174931)
That's more like billing resources as needed, rather than actually spinning them up. The resources are always spinning.
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Re:I wish my web server were in the corner of my room by imhoguy on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @06:48AM (#33175138)
Yep, exactly that. I know most of HW can go on power-save on idle states, but still drawing some 5-15W of energy doing nothing. We need some kind of "e-ink" for web resources which doesn't change much but just need to be reached occasionally/on-demand, with a slight unsuspend delay of course.
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Re:I wish my web server were in the corner of my room by birdyrooster on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @03:11AM (#33173833)
When a bunch of people ping you because the Plex isn't running right, you find that obsessing over the 9s early saves you headaches.
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